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New from Reboot, the Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia for intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Hosted by Regine Basha and Nathalie Basha, the series premieres in April 2023. Subscribe now to catch them all and be the first to know about our upcomin ...
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The Contribution of Women in Research & Egyptology
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This special Women’s History Month episode will delve into women in research and the field of Egyptology with Dr. Fayza Haikal and Dr. Betsy Bryan.This episode is also in collaboration with the History of Egypt’s podcast episode “God’s Wives, King’s Daughters, and the Princesses of Amarna” with ARCE’s Courtney Marx.Listen and learn more via this li…
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Exploring the work of the American Research Center in Egypt
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The second episode of the 75th Anniversary Series will focus on ARCE’s programs and publications as well as their impact on the field.Podcast GuestsDr. Yasmin El Shazly; Deputy Director for Research and Programs at ARCEDr. Emily Teeter; Egyptologist who specializes in religion, social history, art, and the history of Egyptology. Teeter has been ass…
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Digging into History: The founding of the American Research Center in Egypt
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The first episode of the 75th Anniversary Series will delve into the founding and early beginnings of the American Research Center in Egypt. Podcast GuestsDr. Peter Lacovara; the Director of the Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology FundDr. Peter F Dorman; Professor Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University o…
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Kitchen Radio - Konafa a la Creme with Claudia Roden
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In the season finale of the Kitchen Radio podcast, icon of the Middle Eastern and Jewish food worlds, Claudia Roden, makes an Egyptian-Jewish version of Konafa which is one of the region's most beloved desserts and her childhood favorite. Roden recounts a story of her family’s passage from Aleppo to Cairo from her book, “The Book of Jewish Food: An…
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Rafram Chaddad dispatches live from La Goulette, Tunis with a rapid-fire making of ‘Brik’, a Jewish specialty that became a favorite regional street food. Rafram documents his domestic life and Tunisian-Jewish presence, family history and culture through food, stories and public art installations, which can be found on instagram @rafram_x The Kitch…
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Kitchen Radio - Kubba Bamia + Biscochos with the Sephardic Spice Girls
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The Sephardic Spice Girls (Rachel Emquies Sheff + Sharon Gomperts) of Los Angeles serve up Iraqi-Jewish Kubba Bamia and Sephardic ‘Biscochos’ with tea and talk about how cooking these dishes and story-telling brings their family and community closer to recent lost history. The Sephardic Spice Girls actively write for the Jewish Journal and conduct …
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Kitchen Radio - Gondi Kashi with Tannaz Sassooni
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In the series premiere of Kitchen Radio, Tannaz Sassooni makes us a meatless Gondi Kashi from her grandmother’s Iran and recounts a lively tradition Persian Jews play during Passover. Born in Tehran to a Jewish family, Tannaz is a Los Angeles-based food writer exploring Los Angeles’ global culinary landscape and interviewing mothers and grandmother…
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Introducing: The Kitchen Radio Podcast (Trailer)
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The Kitchen Radio podcast brings listeners to the table of communities from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia for intergenerational stories of community life and ritual practices from guests who are part of a rising renaissance of creative food projects exploring the oft-overlooked Jewish history and heritage. Premiering in Apr…
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Get ready to unplug - but don’t sign off yet because in celebration of the upcoming Global Day of Unplugging on March 3-4, 2023, we are revisiting the Unplug episode of The Kibitz podcast, Season 1, Episode 4, originally aired in March 2016. Despite the obvious irony in a podcast about unplugging, this episode of The Kibitz is all about our need to…
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Conservation and Presentation at Carter House: S:2 EP:3
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In this episode:This episode will focus on ARCE’s Carter House dream team led by Dr. Nicholas Warner alongside Tom Hardwick, Sally El Sabbahy, and Mena Melad that worked on Carter House and what they did to have it ready for its November 2022 relaunch. For more information, please go to https://arce.org/podcast/archive-series/#tab3…
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Replay: In Quarantine with Steve Bodow - Cory Booker's Sure He's My Most Difficult Podcast Interview
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To salute President’s Day, we are revisiting Season 2 Episode 3 of the In Quarantine with Steve Bodow podcast, originally aired in August 2020. Host Steve Bowdow talks with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker about Kamala Harris’ ascent, the future of the racial justice movement, and which medical procedure most resembles getting vetted for the vice pre…
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we are revisiting Season 1, Episode 3 of The Kibitz podcast, originally aired in February 2016. Host Dan Crane asks, what is love, anyway? Howard Jones didn’t know back in 1983, and Jews have pondered the same question as far back as Jacob and Rachel. Join Crane on a journey into the heart of what makes our hearts aflu…
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Replay: In Quarantine with Steve Bodow - Ronny Chieng Would Try Parking Garage Standup At This Point
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To mark Chinese New Year, we are revisiting Season 2 Episode 6 of the In Quarantine with Steve Bodow podcast originally aired in September 2020. After five months quarantined in Sydney, the Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng tells host Steve Bodow about returning to NYC, why Australia kicked our corona response ass, and what Chinese New Year can…
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To ring in 2023, we are revisiting Season 1 Episode 2 of The Kibitz Podcast, originally aired in January of 2016. In this episode, host Dan Crane focuses on transitions, religious and gender fluidity and what being a Jew means at B-Mitzvah age and now. Featuring guests: Zackary Drucker and Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Transparent), Christopher Noxon, Mish…
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The Jewish Bizarre - The Strange World of Nasology and the Jewish Shnozz
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In the mid 19th century, “Nasology'' emerged, a pseudoscientific belief that claimed that you could tell a person's personality type by the shape of their nose. Dr. Eddy Portnoy and Dr. Tony Michels get into the nitty gritty of the satirical origins of Nasology, its impact on the Jewish community, and what exactly the deal is with the stereotypical…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Geniuses, Idiots, and the Greatest Mohel
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Throughout history Jews have earned a reputation for being highly educated, after all, Jews have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes despite being only .18% of the world’s population. But are there really more Jewish geniuses? Our own geniuses, Jessica Chaffin, Dr. Tony Michels, and Dr. Eddy Portnoy look at Jewish scholars and Jewish idiots throughout hist…
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Preventive conservation at the Red Monastery: S:2 EP:2
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In this episode:Season 2 Episode 2 of the ARCE with Dr. Nicholas Warner and ARCE’s Archives Manager Andreas Kostopoulos in this episode Dr. Warner is walking us through the construction of the shelter and interesting stories behind it. For more information, please go to www.arce.org/podcast/archive-series…
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The Jewish Bizarre - The Tonsil Riots and Other Jewish Uprisings
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Dr. Eddy Portnoy and Dr. Tony Michels dive into the Tonsil Riots of 1906 - an uprising led by Jewish mothers in New York City after their kids were operated on without their knowledge- the Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902, and other Jewish protests that are absent from the cultural lexicon. Plus the largest funeral to ever occur in New York City, invent…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Anarchists and the Yom Kippur Balls
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In the late 1880s, young Eastern European Jewish immigrants had discovered anarchism, Marxism, and other such ideologies that had radicalized them against religion. In an effort to protest religion and expose the lie they thought it was, they threw outrageous balls throughout New York City…on Yom Kippur. Dr. Tony Michels, Jessica Chaffin, and Dr. E…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Only Murders in the Shtetl
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In December 1875, a Jewish woman named Sarah Alexander is found dead in a Brooklyn cornfield, her neck slashed. The investigation and murder trial sweeps the nation and forever changes the perception of Jews in the United States. Dr. Eddy Portnoy, Dr. Tony Michels, and Jessica Chaffin dive into what happened and why the case was so intriguing. Plus…
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The Story Behind the Akhenaten Talatat Blocks: S:2 EP:1
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In this episode:Season 2 of the ARCE podcast kicks off with Dr. Rawya Ismail and ARCE’s Archives Manager Andreas Kostopoulos in this episode that will focus on the conservation and documentation of the blocks in the Karnak Temple. For more information, please go to https://www.arce.org/podcast/archive-series…
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In this episode:Dr. Mariam Ayad and Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson will continue with Female Pharaohs Part II. Ayad and Williamson will finish the discussion on the female pharaohs and how they came to power. For more information please go to https://www.arce.org/female-pharaohs-part-iiBy American Research Center in Egypt Podcast
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In this episode:Dr. Mariam Ayad and Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson will discuss the status of women in ancient Egypt relative to their counterparts in other contemporary cultures and the level of objectivity of our views of ancient Egyptian culture and society. They will answer the questions of why Egyptian female rulers are referred to as “kings”, how d…
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In this episode:Professor Betsy Bryan will be talking about kingship and the distinguishing features of royal ideology during the Egyptian New Kingdom. She will explain the concept of the royal ka and how a usurper of the throne legitimized his/her rule. Who does she believe was the target audience for such scenes and what was the purpose behind th…
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Kingship in the Middle Kingdom -Steve Harvey
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In this episode:Dr. Stephen Harvey will be talking about Egyptian kingship from the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of the New Kingdom. He will discuss the lessons learnt by the kings of the Middle Kingdom from the First Intermediate Period, and the changes they made to ensure that this fragmentation would not happen again. He will also shed light …
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Kingship in the Old Kingdom- Miroslav Barta
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In this episode:Professor Miroslav Barta will be talking about kingship during the Egyptian Old Kingdom. He will introduce us to the most prominent roles of an Egyptian king, the position of the king within the hierarchy of being, the role of the elite in the perpetuation, upkeep of kingship, and the role played by the king in the decline of the st…
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The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period- Marina Escolano-Poveda
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In this episode: Dr. Escolano-Poveda discusses her new book, The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period (Harrassowitz 2020), in which she examines the representations of Egyptian priests in Egyptian and Greek literary and paraliterary texts, in order to determine the role of these important figures in the historical and intellectual context of…
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Al Amasili Project in Rosetta- Mohamed Kenawi
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In this episode: This is the first podcast in the series “Scribe, Behind the Scenes”, In this podcast we talk with Dr. Kenawi about the Amasili Project: the multidisciplinary conservation of an Ottoman-period house in the center of Rosetta. In addition to learning about its novel approach to heritage conservation, we discuss threats to heritage sit…
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Aftermath of Tutankhamun's Reign- Maggie Bryson
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In this episode: Dr. Maggie Bryson discusses the aftermath of the Reign of Tutankhamun, what happened after his death as well as the lasting impacts of the Amarna period on Egypt. Bryson discusses the role of the general Horemheb and the transition to the next Dynasty. In conversation with Dr. Fatma Ismail, ARCE's US Director for Outreach and Progr…
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Photo Credit: Nozomu Kawai Professor Kawai discusses the political situation during the reign of King Tutankhamun and highlights the most important women and men in his court. He also details the vast building program of the king and what could be his motives behind it- In conversation with Dr. Fatma Ismail, ARCE's US Director for Outreach and Prog…
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Inside the Tomb of Tutankhamun- Salima Ikram
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Photo Credit: HARRY BURTON (C) THE GRIFFITH INSTITUTE, OXFORD. Professor Salima Ikram discusses mysteries of King Tutankhamun’s tomb- treasures, his mummy, and the possibility of additional hidden chambers. In conversation with Dr. Fatma Ismail of ARCE. For more information please go to www.arce.orgBy American Research Center in Egypt Podcast
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Photo Credit: HARRY BURTON (C) THE GRIFFITH INSTITUTE, OXFORD.Professor Aidan Dodson discusses what Egyptologists knew about King Tutankhamun prior to his tomb discovery, and sheds light on the parental lineage of King Tutankhamun, Amarna family portraits and the complicated DNA studies done on the mummy of the king. Professor Dodson also sheds lig…
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